V/A · Canto A Lo Divino
V/A · Canto A Lo Divino
SKU:Catalogue number: MR-137
Label: Mississippi Records / Genre: Country · Folk · Blues
TRACKS FOR I WOKE UP ONE MORNING IN MAY
1. Gabriel Huentemil - Por David
2. Ema Madariaga - Por Sodoma y Gomorra
3. Javier Salinas - por Despedimiento de Angelito
4. Santos Rubio - Por Nacimiento
5. Osvaldo _Chosto_ Ulloa - por Salomón
6. Domingo Pontigo - Por Padecimiento
7. José Millahuino Castro - Por Noé
8. Iván Saavedra - Por Muerte
9. Alfonso Rubio - Por José
10. Honorio Quila - Por Nacimiento
Canto A Lo Divino is the sacred music of Chile’s Central Valley. It is a communal form of worship and reflection for the peasants of the remote region, played in packed rooms throughout the night when work is done, hypnotic variations chiming out on the guitar and the celestial, 25-string guitarron.
The Canto has persisted for centuries in the voices of hundreds of men and women who conjure vivid visions of apocalypse, the divine, and angelitos (very young children who have died). But the verses are also rooted in daily life in the valley - labor and drought, family, animals, and the life cycles of plants. There are countless entonaciones (melodies) passed on in 10-line rhyming decimas, an ancient song form originating in Spain and found from South America to the Mississippi Delta. The combination is entrancing and transporting, cosmic and earthly at once.